Archive for the “Screenwriting From Iowa” Category
Jul
26
2021
 
Hollywood’s Best Sermon? Pulpit?Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa”In this same New Bedford there stands a Whaleman’s Chapel, and few are the moody fishermen, shortly bound for the Indian Ocean or Pacific, who fail to make a Sunday visit to the spot. I am sure that I did not.”—Moby Dick, Chapter 6, written by Herman Melville I don’t remember how old I was […]
Jul
13
2021
Postcard #202 (Whale’s Tail)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaAfter I left Nantucket in June, I spent most of the next day accomplishing my own whale quest. The photo below is the best result of about three hours of total driving on Cape Cod and around three and a half hours on a boat. (And a few dollars on a whale watching boat.) We […]
Jul
12
2021
The House Where Melville Wrote ‘Moby-Dick’Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“Heaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.“Ishmael in Moby-Dick (Chapter 17)Written by Herman Melville While I was on Nantucket at the end of June, I picked up the book Why Read Moby-Dick? by Nathaniel Philbrick at […]
Jul
06
2021
Walking (and Driving) Through History with Ben Franklin and Ryan ReynoldsPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaThis afternoon I fly home from Boston after a vacation in New England that was like a live Ken Burns documentary. Much of the time I listened to David McCullough’s audio book 1776. If I would have taken this trip at 16 (and paid attention) I would have done much better in my high school […]
Jul
06
2021
Walking (and Driving) Through History with Ben Franklin and Ryan RenyoldsPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaThis afternoon I fly home from Boston after a vacation in New England that was like a live Ken Burns documentary. Much of the time I listened to David McCullough’s audio book 1776. If I would have taken this trip at 16 (and paid attention) I would have done much better in my high school […]
Jul
06
2021
Walking (and Driving) Through HistoryPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaThis afternoon I fly home from Boston after a vacation in New England that was like a live Ken Burns documentary. Much of the time I listened to David McCullough’s audio book 1776. If I would have taken this trip at 16 (and paid attention) I would have done much better in my high school […] Earlier this month a friend of mine had some 16mm equipment he was interested in selling. One of the pieces was a Bell & Howell 70DR 16mm camera. It’s the kind that has turret lens you turn for wide, medium, and telephoto shots. Bell & Howell started making these kinds of cameras back in the […] “Nantucket! Take out your map and look at it. See what a real corner of the world it occupies; how it stands there, away off shore, more lonely than the Eddystone lighthouse.” —Moby Dick written by Herman Melville It took me a few decades to make it to Nantucket. Yeah, it was worth it. The little […] Earlier this month a friend of mine had some 16mm equipment he was interested in selling. One of the pieces was a Bell & Howell 70DR 16mm camera. It’s the kind that has turret lens you turn for wide, medium, and telephoto shots. Bell & Howell started making these kinds of cameras back in the […]
Jun
14
2021
Postcard #200 (Purposely Wes Anderson on Lake Howell)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“You know it when you see it: whether it’s the symmetrical lines, pastel hues, immaculate composition, or something idiosyncratic and beautiful that you can and cannot describe at once, the director Wes Anderson has an immediately identifiable style to his films.”—From the book Accidentally Wes Anderson A couple of weeks ago I was kayaking on […] |
